CVE-2025-24375 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-24375: MySQL K8s charm could leak credentials for root-level user `serverconfig`

Vendor Canonical
Product mysql-k8s-operator
Weakness CWE-256
Published April 9, 2025
Last update April 10, 2025

CVSS base score

5.0/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Charmed MySQL K8s operator is a Charmed Operator for running MySQL on Kubernetes. Before revision 221, the method for calling a SQL DDL or python based mysql-shell scripts can leak database users credentials. The method mysql-operator calls mysql-shell application rely on writing to a temporary script file containing the full URI, with user and password. The file can be read by a unprivileged user during the operator runtime, due it being created with read permissions (0x644). On other cases, when calling mysql cli, for one specific case when creating the operator users, the DDL contains said users credentials, which can be leak through the same mechanism of a temporary file. All versions prior to revision 221 for kubernetes and revision 338 for machine operators.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 9, 2025 CVE published
April 10, 2025 Record updated